Came across a wireless mouse I bought 3 months ago. Took me 15 minutes to work out how to use it because I had opened the packaging it came in and threw away the instructions.
Who wants to call me a Geek?
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I used to have a wireless mouse and then the rechargeable battery gave up the ghost. The battery was hard wired in and trying to find a replacement was impossible, so now I’m back with a USB optical mouse that has a long tail.
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I’ve been using this Logitech Optical Mouse for the last four years and it’s brilliant. The battery lasts forever (not rechargeable) and I have only replaced it once in four years. The only problem I’ve had with it was the small on/off slide switch became intermittent and unreliable. So I took the mouse to pieces and permanently wired it into the on position, the only drawback is that I remove the battery each time I’ve finished using it, but I believe that if it’s left idle for a while it automatically shuts down…A bit like me really…
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When I bought my first lap top I used the pad and didn’t know about mouses then. So when the pad jammed I bought a new lap top!
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Nice one Mr Foxy!
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That is the sort of thing I would, and do do 
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Funny thing…
I was sorting out a cluttered drawer full of odd cables and the like yesterday when I discovered a bluetooth mouse, that I had long forgotten about. I think I might have bought it for an android mini computer some years ago.
I might revive it, it even has a little USB plug in piece in the base for computers without bluetooth. I have half a dozen spare USB wired mouses (mice?) but to be honest I find the touch pad on a laptop just fine most of the time.
Am not sure if it would work with a rechargable battery they are usually Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) and only 1.2 volts
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The touch pad failed on one of my Lenovo laptops, I bought a cheap after market one, it was a fiddly job to replace and is still there to this day.
For some reason it is missing the vital feature of scrolling when one uses two fingers, so annoying, the discovery of the Bluetooth mouse might just be its saviour
Did you try soaking it in metho or some form of alcohol?
I can see a “Click” forming on this thread. 
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It looked like a cheapo inefficient switch Bruce so I just unsoldered it and binned it.
Funny you should say that Spitty, I didn’t realise mouses had a click until I got my new hearing enhancement devices… 
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I’ve been using one for years and it uses an AA battery
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